Zhang Zhengtao, Song Yan, Ding Guosheng, Li Zhiming

Keywords： Urban Block Shape Control Tool; New Urbanism; Form-based Code

Abstract：

Urban sprawl is a challenge faced by the planning field in the US. To confront with a range of issues associated with sprawling urban form brought by urban sprawl, planners in the US have retreated to design tools of the physical environment and initiated concepts such as new urbanism, smart codes, and formbased codes, which is the tool to shape urban form at the site level. The article first describes the evolving trend of urban form tools, illustrates in detail the form-based codes, and lastly, provides policy suggestions to urban form tool in China from three perspectives including concepts, implementation and the development of the planning field.

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